How to Get Slightly Famous by "Writing a Book"

It always helps to be slightly famous. Whether you are selling widgets or offering a widget-repair service, your business will benefit if you, the proprietor, are well-known for your expertise. One way to get to this point is to publish a book. It is easy enough these days to engage a vanity press to print your book affordably, but what of the actual writing of the thing? Now, if you are trying to get slightly famous as a writer, it follows that you might want to write your own book. However, if you want to be slightly famous as the world's best widget maker, you can hire someone to do the writing. No one expects a widget-maker to be a literary scholar. We all have different experiences from which we could draw for our book. Perhaps you haven't been in the widget business long, so you don't feel comfortable claiming expertise in that area. That's fine. You could talk about what it was like going to widget school. The trials and tribulations of the gruelling widget-repair training course you attended. The main thing to keep in mind is that you are unique, so the things you have to say will be unique as well. This is where you ghostwriter comes in. It is her job to go through your memoir of a widget-obsessed childhood and point out the parts that are interesting and should be developed further as well as the parts that you might have thought were fantastic but are actually a little cliche or a little boring or a little confusing. Your writer can interview you as needed to bring out the chapter ideas to make the book come alive, then help you expound upon the experiences you want to relate or the ideas you want to communicate. She does the organizing, she does the conceptual thinking, she does the proofreading, she gets it all down, and she makes it funny, profound, suspenseful, philosophical, spiritual, or conversational—whatever style you desire. All you do is dream . . . and talk. And with the help of a ghostwriter and a vanity press, you are soon on your way to being slightly famous.